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Friday, December 22, 2006


News for 12-21-06

12-21-06 - A Palestinian civilian from Rafah dies of injuries sustained earlier The young man was injured when Israeli boats opened fire at a number of Palestinian fishing boats in Rafah City a week ago, the sources added.


12-21-06 - Heavy gunfire in Gaza City near minister's home Gunmen exchanged fire in Gaza City early on Friday close to the home of the foreign minister in the Hamas-led government, Palestinian witnesses said.


12-21-06 - Homemade Shells Injure Three Palestinians Including a Pregnant Woman in Gaza A Palestinian home made shell landed on Thursday morning on a Palestinian house wounding three Palestinians including a pregnant woman in the northern Gaza strip.


12-21-06 - Palestinian militants fire more homemade rockets at Israel The rocket attack came in response to the Israeli attacks in West Bank where three Palestinians were killed over the past three days.


12-21-06 - Gaza's residents rally for peace


12-21-06 - Rights groups reject travel ban on West Bank hitchhikers


12-21-06 - Bush OKs Law Blocking Aid to Hamas Gov't Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., ranking member on the House International Relations Committee after Congress reconvenes Jan. 4, said she was pleased the president signed the bill she sponsored in the House.


12-21-06 - 'Bethlehem wall' shock for Williams


12-21-06 - Jordan tourist attacker to hang


12-21-06 - Japan reaffirms Mideast commitment to Jordan's king Foreign Minister Taro Aso told the king -- in Tokyo to discuss the chaos in the Palestinian territories and Iraq -- that Japan would keep supporting initiatives such as the "peace and prosperity corridor", a statement said Thursday. Under the "corridor" proposed by then prime minister Junichiro Koizumi on a visit to the Middle East in July, Japan would help develop the West Bank and build an agro-industrial park there in cooperation with Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority



12-21-06 - Report: Arabs in north get 10% of budget for rebuilding region A new report released on Wednesday accuses the government of allocating Arab communities only 10 percent - instead of the 30 percent pledged - of the budgets for rebuilding Israel's north in the wake of the war in Lebanon.



12-21-06 - Gaza ? Latest Report on ICRC Activities in the Field


12-21-06 - Asia-Africa Countries to Assist Palestine


12-21-06 - US compensation lawsuit against Ya'alon dropped In the United States last week the Washington DC District Court threw out a civil lawsuit against former IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. (res) Moshe Ya'alon demanding compensation on behalf of the families of those killed in the Lebanese village of Qana in 1996.


12-21-06 - Misuse of Weapons by Armed Groups and Security Personnel


12-21-06 - Religious leaders arrive in Bethlehem for three-day pilgrimage


12-21-06 - Bnei Brak rabbis: Don't rent to Arabs


12-21-06 - Palestinians have become targets in Iraq's chaos It was the bloodiest assault so far in what has become a long stream of attacks on Palestinians, whose community has been here since the establishment of Israel in 1948 but who've never been granted Iraqi citizenship.


12-21-06 - Canadian PM calls Hamas 'genocidal' genocide def - the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group . Who has driven nearly 3/4 million people from their homes, who has wiped Palestine off the map, who continues to squeeze a people into smaller and smaller areas of land by unlawful land confiscation (this includes by way of the wall)? Is it the Palestinians?


12-21-06 - Israeli confiscation of Jerusalem includes 100,000 Jewish settlers per year The Israelis are bringing 100,000 Jewish settlers to Jerusalem every year. The Director of Mapping in Jerusalem's Arab Studies Society said that the Israeli plan to Judaize the city will accommodate 500,000 more settlers by 2010.


12-21-06 - After 17 years Israelis demolish Palestinian home in East Jerusalem


12-21-06 - A somber Christmas for Gaza's Christians Pointing out the window to the Catholic school's playground, he says that just 100 of the school's 650 students are Christians. The rest are Muslim. At Christmastime, a Muslim often volunteers to dress up as Santa Claus and passes out gifts to all children, he said.


12-21-06 - High Court approves cutting off a-Ram from East Jerusalem This section of the barrier will surround a-Ram on three sides. The barrier's route will separate a-Ram from its last land reserves, and leaves this area on the Israeli side of the barrier. The barrier also separates a-Ram from three villages lying west of it.


12-21-06 - No escape for Palestinians locked in Gaza violence


12-21-06 - First Arab peacekeepers deploy in Lebanon


12-21-06 - Text of the patriarch of Jerusalem's 2006 Christmas message


12-21-06 - Jesus is a Terrorist


12-21-06 - EU Parliament member: Syria's peace intentions genuine


12-21-06 - Jailed Syrian dissident prods Bush on Palestine, Iraq In his December 13 statement, Bush called on Syria to free all political prisoners and to halt "intimidation and interference" which, he alleged, had been hurting Lebanon's embattled democracy.


12-21-06 - Music Review | 'West-Eastern Divan Orchestra'


12-21-06 - Harper?s ill-informed pronouncement on Hamas threatens peace in the Middle East says McDonough NDP Foreign Affairs and International Development Critic, Alexa McDonough (Halifax), today condemned Stephen Harper?s pronouncement on Hamas and Hezbollah as inflammatory and destructive to any advancing of peace in the Middle East.


12-21-06 - Another sad attempt by an Israel-defender to smear Carter Note the tone of the rhetoric that that author alleges as fact, and you'll see the hidden agenda. The Bush family ties to the Saudis are well known, yet are not given the same amount of time and attention by the pro-Israel camp for one reason - (this)Bush is an Israel-defender.


12-21-06 - OPEC Fund approves over USD 8 million for development projects Up to USD 2.5 million would support the second phase of financial aid for Palestinian civil communities as OFID provides assistance to food-insecure communities and severely affected households and people in hospitals, orphanages and homes for the elderly, Al-Herbish said.


12-21-06 - Protests result in ousting of Cambridge anti-Israel group Jewish activists are at the forefront of ousting a series of Palestinian advocacy groups held at a cluster of churches in Cambridge. To suggest that Jewish groups conspire to silence opposition is, according to the ADL and like orgs, the furtherance of an 'anti-Semitic canard'.


12-21-06 - Academic group seeks to make Jerusalem a violence-free city

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